stepanov on i686-pc-linux-gnu

[Andreas Schwab]

Joe Buck <jbuck@racerx.synopsys.com> writes:

|> > On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 06:24:39PM -0700, Joe Buck wrote:
|> > > .L262:
|> > > 	faddl	(%eax)
|> > > 	leal	8(%eax), %edx
|> > > 	cmpl	%ecx, %edx
|> > > 	movl	%edx, %eax
|> > > 	jne	.L262
|> > > 	movl	%edx, 8(%ebp)
|> > > 
|> > > Ouch!  The iterator is being retrieved and stored to memory.
|> > 
|> > Well, sorta.  That last move is outside the loop.
|> 
|> Sigh.  I'm so used to looking at Sparc assembly with the delayed
|> branch.
|> 
|> Nevertheless, there are two memory accesses in the loop

No, there is only one.  'leal' only calculates the effective address,
without any memory access.

Andreas.

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